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2 answers
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Are spammers and trolls part of the community?

This is a much more philosophical question than most. It is inspired by the question Is "the community" an arbiter or an authority of "belonging" on the site? as it relates to the ...
Robert Columbia's user avatar
1 vote
1 answer
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Alert users that they already gave anonymous feedback on a post

Users without the "vote up" or "vote down" privilege can still click the upvote/downvote buttons. When doing so, they get such banners: When upvoting without "vote up" ...
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7 votes
0 answers
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Sandboxing the FAQ for Stack Exchange sites to make it international

The content was taken from the rev. 233 of FAQ for Stack Exchange sites to test an idea shared on a comment to my answer to Help develop the site and community knowledge base in your language. The ...
Rubén's user avatar
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-12 votes
1 answer
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Useless SE banner, visiting new communities

Whenever I go exploring some Stack Exchange communities I didn't joined yet, the "Here's how it works" banners shows up, explaining me the general principle of Stack Exchange: Most users visiting the ...
loxaxs's user avatar
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3 votes
1 answer
157 views

Can Unregistered Users delete their questions? [duplicate]

If I were to accidentally ask a question as an unregistered user, could I go back and delete that question?
system0verl0ad's user avatar
1 vote
0 answers
161 views

Merging accounts [duplicate]

I answered a question without creating an account I guess. This account was somehow created for me. https://stackexchange.com/users/778707/favone Then I registered the name, but a new account was ...
user avatar
2 votes
0 answers
83 views

When do I lose my unregistered account? [duplicate]

When I login as anonymous, (well it sounds weird, but logged in with email only in SO, or as a guest) What causes me to lose that account? (not being able to post something as the user) closing ...
Eugene's user avatar
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26 votes
1 answer
280 views

Logged in users with less than 15 reputation should be able to give feedback

If I'm not logged in to any Stack Exchange site, I can give feedback clicking on vote button: But if I'm logged in, and I have less than 15 reputation, I get a message that more reputation is ...
Web Devie's user avatar
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5 votes
0 answers
46 views

How SO manages and implements accountless questions? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Why should I register my account? I was over in http://codereview.stackexchange.com and I noticed that I can post a question without registering or creating an account. I ...
Eyad's user avatar
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189 votes
10 answers
9k views

Repository of useful pro-forma comments

Every tag has its questions that make the same mistake(s) over and over and over again. (But some tags more than others.) That's where Benjol's pro forma comments script comes in. The only downside to ...
47 votes
3 answers
3k views

Encouraging users to create an account (and keep it)

I know SO's policy is "you don't have to register to ask questions," but there are so many new members and so many hit-and-runs... The majority of the questions I see now are coming from new ...
NullUserException  อ_อ's user avatar
-2 votes
2 answers
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Are there anonymous users? [User{someNr}] [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Why do some users have username “user########”? In the last few days there have been a lot of really easy questions concerning C#, ASP.NET Webforms and so on. All ...
Random Dev's user avatar
6 votes
0 answers
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Which one is the real number of users on Stackoverflow? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Discrepancy between user counts on Leagues versus Users page. According to https://stackoverflow.com/users, SO currently has ~421k users. (I see 9x4 users on a page, with ...
sbi's user avatar
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-1 votes
1 answer
84 views

Do you have to be logged in to post a question? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Why should I register my account? do you have to be logged in to post a question?
user avatar
3 votes
5 answers
1k views

How do I give someone reputation?

Someone answered one of my questions and I would like to give him reputation. How do I do that? Does the computer do that itself? This is my second day using this site, so I can't quite navigate this ...
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